Rough Cut Lab – Selected Projects 2017

Constructions

by Fernando Martín Restelli    
Argentina | 70'
María Milagros Cabral Montejano & Pablo  Cruceño - Periferia Cine
Expected release: January 2018

Coral portrait about the transformations that occur within a working class family of the Matadero neighborhood of La Calera, Córdoba, about finding a home of their own. Composed as a family album, "Constructions" offers an intimate approach to the everyday life of the workers who build city and seek to build their own homes by occupying land.

Sisters

by Paola  Ochoa    
Colombia | 75’
Paola Ochoa, Sebastian  Sarmiento Bazzani - Extranjero Films
Expected release: November 2017

“Hermanas” tells the stories of four Colombian sisters in their 50’s –Martha, Mary, Gloria and Maria Teresa-­ through their day‐to‐day lives and conversations. With the lighthearted fun that characterizes them, their stories will reflect on love, relationships and being a woman in Colombia’s society. “Hermanas” is a personal story born from the desire to make a portrait of that space of feminine intimacy from which life is interpreted.

The Desert

by Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Al Haddad    
Syria, Lebanon | 180’ 240'
Mohammad Ali Atassi - Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts

Expected release: June 2017

Two art student friends Saeed and Milad decides to leave Damascus, under the control of the Regime and join Douma, under the control of the Rebels. Shot over more than 4 years and more than 500 hours of rushes, the film depicts their daily lives facing deep questions about life and death but mostly the life of the city of Douma and its people, from liberation to war, to siege and hunger. The two friends finally get out of Douma, seeking refuge in Beirut, where they face loss, exile and hope.

Upstream

by Leonor Teles    
Portugal | 90’
Filipa  Reis - Uma Pedra no Sapato
Expected release: Early 2018

Set in a fishermen’s borough on the shore of the Tagus River, Upstream portrays the life of a solitary man. A unique kind of solitude, bringing with it the kind of positive state of mind that arises from being together with oneself. In contrast to the river, lies the city and the relationships tying Albertino Lobo to life on land, namely his relationships with his wife and daughters. We follow the family during one year, always from Albertino’s point of view, until his older daughter's marriage.